US Marine Lt. Col Brian Shinkle of Albion, Illinois plays a bagpipe near a destroyed British warrior fighting veichle belonging to the Black Watch regiment at a forward base in the central Iraqi city of Yusufiyah, south of Baghdad, 01 December 2004(AFP/Odd Andersen)

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Schofield soldiers' lives back on hold

By Kirsten Scharnberg
Chicago Tribune

KIRKUK, Iraq — Some plans were bigger than others.

To live, for the first time, with the wife he married while home on leave.

To shower with hot water.

To be there when his wife's daughter, recently diagnosed with congenital heart disease, goes to doctor appointments.

To eat good pizza.


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